Call for Papers - Special Issue of "Information Processing Technologies towards the Year 2020"

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for a special section of “Information Processing Technologies towards the Year 2020” that will be issued in March 2017.
Timely and speedy publication of research outcomes by researchers will not only contribute to the progress of information technologies but will help the researchers to enhance the carriers and promote the research grant activities. Based on the background, IPSJ announced special issues of “Students’ and Yong Researchers’ Papers” in 2014 and 2015, and received many submissions from the community. In this special section, we expand our scheme and accept papers also from senior researchers.
In this special section, we will publish papers on state-of-the art researches and techniques that will contribute researches and social activities in the year 2020. We welcome to submit a paper on any research topic of our society, so long as the first author is a member of IPSJ and the topic is in the scope of IPSJ. This special issue is conducted by guest editor system. Akiko Aizawa (National Institute of Informatics) has been invited as a guest editor in chief for this special section.
***************************************************************************************************
Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more submissions from outside of Japan.
Any papers electronically submitted to JIP before July 31, 2016 are eligible for 30% discount in publication charge when accepted.
****************************************************************************************************

(1) All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:

https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ipsj

In the event you would like to make a submission, you must first create an account on the paper submission Web page. For detailed information, please refer to the manual available from the link “Submission Rules and Document Types” at the top of the submission page.

(2) All papers will be reviewed. The review process will be carried out in the same manner as regular issues. However, you have shorter time than usual (two months) for preparation of your responses to inquiries.

(3) Submission deadline is May 31, 2016.

(4) The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in March, 2017. Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in March, 2017.

(5) The first author of the paper should be a member of IPSJ at the time of submission.

(6) The Editorial Committee of This Special Issue
Editor in-Chief: Akiko AIZAWA (National Institute of Informatics)
Editorial Board: Yasuo OKABE (Kyoto Univ.)
Editorial Committee: Takashi HORIYAMA (Saitama Univ.), Takashi IMAIZUMI,(Chiba Univ.), Ryu IIDA,(NICT), Yasuichi NAKAYAMA (The Univ. of Electro-Communications), Takaaki TATEISHI (IBM Research), Nobuyoshi ASAI (The Univ. of Aizu), Tetsuya SHIGEYASU (Prefectural Univ. of Hiroshima), Koji OKINO,( Univ. of Toyama), Katsuhide FUJITA (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology), Tatsuki SEKINO (Research Institute of Humanity and Nature), Masahiro TOYOURA ( Univ. of Yamanashi), Naohiko TAKEDA (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), Yuki HAYASHI (Osaka Prefecture Univ.), Keisuke FUJIMOTO (Hitachi, Ltd.)